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Nmap

Who runs Nmap, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest network security scanner alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Wireshark

Measured from Nmap’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Nmap

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Nmap Free Security Scanner, Port Scanner, & Network Exploration Tool. Download open source software for Linux, Windows, UNIX, FreeBSD, etc.

Wikidata: network discovery and security auditing tool

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Nmap tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

6 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 1 tool

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Nmap

Fewer trackers than Nmap No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Nmap match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Nmap adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 4 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,214
Vector: 384-d
Query: 40 ms

Built with

Analytics: Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
Web servers: Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=SrtYpJGxZzMTcczZG44XtLVK-sEPit9bputDjWc0lF4

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.